Job security Memes

Ah yes, the digital equivalent of finding ancient hieroglyphics. Nothing says "job security" like writing code so complex that even your future self will be baffled. That counter isn't tracking optimization attempts—it's tracking the collective existential crises of every developer who touched this monstrosity. The best part? Somewhere out there is a developer staring at this comment, incrementing the counter to 68, and wondering if therapy is covered by their health plan.

The dark truth no CS professor ever warns you about. Write elegant, maintainable code and you'll be replaced by the next bootcamp grad in 48 hours. Create a tangled nightmare of spaghetti code with zero documentation, and suddenly you've got job security until retirement. The real 10x developer strategy isn't writing more code—it's making yourself unfireable by being the only one who understands the monstrosity you've created. Career hack unlocked!

The meme shows the progression of job recursion getting increasingly disturbing. Recruiters hiring recruiters? Normal. Cooks cooking cooks? Slightly concerning. But programmers programming programmers? That's just AI development with extra steps. We're literally coding ourselves out of jobs while smiling maniacally about it. Skynet doesn't need Terminators when it has LinkedIn.

Ah, the perfect visual metaphor for legacy code in its natural habitat. A stack of books with "THESE BOOKS ARE HERE FOR AN ESSENTIAL STRUCTURAL PURPOSE. THEY ARE NOT FOR SALE." written on their spines. This is basically every codebase older than 5 years. Nobody understands how it works. Nobody dares to touch it. But remove one line and the entire production environment collapses like a Jenga tower during an earthquake. The irony is delicious - those books aren't valuable for their content but merely for their physical presence... just like that 2000-line function written by a developer who left the company in 2011. It's not elegant, it's not documented, but by god, it's holding up the entire billing system!